Aylin read and liked Bookmarks Magazine's review of Let the Great World Spin: A Novel:

""McCann's reputation is that of a writer's writer, as in Dancer, his risky fictionalized biography of ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev. In much the same way that Jay McInerney and Don DeLillo have become standard bearers for social commentary in Ame...more "McCann's reputation is that of a writer's writer, as in Dancer, his risky fictionalized biography of ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev. In much the same way that Jay McInerney and Don DeLillo have become standard bearers for social commentary in American fiction, McCann writes about particular times and places -- ""the collision point of stories"" -- with a sharp eye and a genuine empathy that allows his fiction to resound with the power of memoir. In Let the Great World Spin, the lives of his characters mirror Petit's courageous, outrageous walk -- paths set, outcomes less certain. Although widely praised, a few critics commented that the stories-within-this-story were uneven -- not to mention mostly depressing. But in the end, most reviewers opined that the novel's day-in-the-life frame calls to mind James Joyce's Ulysses; the words and the ideas, though, are all McCann's."(less) "